IT IS A REAL SHAME BUT THE WAR WITH HAMAS THAT COULD EASILY HAVE BEEN WON IS NOW LOST

The war with Hamas is well and truly lost and the responsibility lies not with the rank and file soldiers but with the whole political and military elites in Israel. The situation can be summed up as being a case of brave, brave soldier led by pompous fools. (I thought of saying led by donkeys but I will not use such expressions ever again because my politics lead me to respect the animal world. Recently I was barred from the Talk Radio Europe radio phone in because I said the host was speaking “bullshit” and on reflection I was sorry I used that expression because I was ashamed of myself for using a derogatory word implicating a defenseless and innocent animal. In case anybody is interested he is a British Jew called Tindesley and he was saying that the Jews in Morocco were never driven out by the Muslims and that made me instantly angry, so I lost my cool)

 

I was struck above all at how small is Gaza. Israel too is small (less than the size of Munster) but Gaza is tiny. And there is so much talk in Jewish circles about the great IDF, but that now has to be very much questioned.

 

Also I was struck by the idea of these Hamas guys going underground. As a military commander I would immediately see that as a major positive for my side. Going underground makes the enemy totally vulnerable.

 

Totally vulnerable if given certain conditions or certain actions by the IDF. I will divide the response to that question in three ways

 

1. What Netanyahu did
2. What a daring commander would have done
3. Finally further consideration of these first two points, the first of which in (1) above we know. It is this further consideration that I would like to focus on.

 

On the question of what Bibi did is very easy to answer. Basically he did nothing (as Martin Sherman demonstrated). Oh of course there were lots being done, soldiers dashing here and there, but as Sherman showed nothing of a strategic nature. So that first question is easy to answer…Bibi did nothing

 

What a daring commander would have done. The answer lies in what Brian Boru did against the Danes in the Battle of Clontarf in that our Brian took possession of the ground that the Danes were standing on and held on to that ground. So a daring commander would have taken possession of the ground and held on to the ground (of Gaza to start with) For that the Jews need a big thought that is simple, true and understandable for all Jews. The big thought is the Land of Israel and to end Antisemitism in the Land of Israel. This is a BIG thought indeed and it even includes some Jews as well, Haaretz comes to mind.

 

Now the reflection…the important part.

 

MOST IMPORTANT POINT NUMBER 1

Israel is not united. Israel does not have a political party to unite it. Because Israel does not have a political party Israel can never unite the vast majority behind a programme. The people of Israel never unite behind a programme. They remain divided. Sometimes as in the Gaza Withdrawal a mass movement develops but because there is no political party the mass movement fades away as reality of defeat sets in

 

MOST IMPORTANT POINT NUMBER 2

Israelis cannot build a political party to unite under because there is no ideology or theory to unite under. Some of the participants include a man on Shermans blog who calls for a King!!!, Netanyahu who was a furniture salesman not a theoretician, his wife plays a role and she is a housewife, Feiglin is terrific but Feiglin is for Feiglin and Feiglin hates the plebeians, Livni is Livni and Livni just loves living with Antisemitism. The “Labour” Party also loves Antisemitism, The Likudniks can never have any power because they see things as moving through the Knesset, so they tie the Israelis to the Knesset, the Women in Green are conquering the latest hill measured 50 yards by twenty, the Rabbis are reading up on what some bloke wrote about something 2000 years ago, most of the ladies in Tel Aviv seek a tan desparately, and there is hardly anybody that sees the Jews as an iron age people who are part of a long development starting somewhat with “Lucy” and her friends on the Savanna plains

 

And that is why Netanyahu could not ever develop a strategy to take over Gaza, expel the Antisemites, make an offer to Arabs to love the Jewish Homeland, even make an offer to some to find new homes (they tell me there is lots of space and lovely nature in Mayo!)

 

Netanyahu has no background (the opposite) to have a strategy or theory even. This issue is beyond him. He is a furniture salesman (and Obama is a third rate University Lecturer and you know what they are like!)

 

So until this new leadership is built then this war and all future wars against Fascism will be lost, and the Jewish Homeland will fall into great danger of being destroyed. The Barbarians will have defeated this Great Idea.

THE MADNESS OF BENNETT IS ALSO THE CRISIS OF LEADERSHIP IN THE JEWISH PEOPLE

by Felix Quigley

Hanging over the Jewish people is 6 million of their people murdered by the Nazis…that is murdered by Antisemitism

 

The uniqueness of the Jews rests especially on the Jews being the longest nation of mankind…some 4000 years AND of the uniqueness of Antisemitism as a special hatred among men

 

Those two factors place a great challenge on leadership today

 

It must be said that right across the board (speaking of Israeli leadership) that challenge is not being met and I predict will not be met by present leaders.

 

The present leaders remind me of the driver of a badly damaged Grand prix car, where the driver tries to steer but every jerk of a reluctant steering wheel sends a judder through the whole car (Israeli public) and amid s`pectator gasps causes a further tremor. Such can be said of the latest proposal of Bennett who seems to be an advocate of the discredited theory that if you make your enemy (Palestinians) comfortable in life then they will respond by “liking” you in nirvana friendship never-ending. Sadly that is not so. Antisemitism trumps that. Similarly the proposals by Martin Sherman based on paying Palestinians to make a new life for themselves elsewhere aided by financial grants and other help falls into the same trap. Antisemitism is likely to trump Sherman as well as Bennett.

 

It is all about leadership as far as Jews are concerned, as far as Irish are concerned, as far as ANYBODY is concerned. THAT is the central issue. So it is well to look closely at existing Israeli leaders right across the board. There is need for clarity. In this there are no “friends”! There are indeed colleagues in struggle, brothers in struggle. But there must be open discussion. Give a man a post in a bourgeois government (Bennett) and he stops communicating and be becomes a “prophet”!!! So there needs to be fair discussion where the discussion is carried on with a lot of that elusive quality “FAIRNESS”.

 

Proposed a humanitarian solution to the Palestinians. Why not! We wish no living being ill man or animal and I would say especially our dumb and totally dependent cousins! But wait…let us also have some principles BECAUSE The Palestinians cannot have a lucky or fortunate future under any circumstances or under any way of thinking if they remain Antisemitic, The Palestinians must break from Antisemitism. That involves the Palestinians understanding their own history. The Palestinians must find a concrete way forward but based on that. Bennett says make them prosperous, as Scarlett Johannson that gorgeous creature thinks also, and they will forget all about ideology of Antisemitism, but ideologies do not work like that and the prosperous Palestinian will become more envious and more Antisemitic not less!!!

 

THE GENERAL SITUATION

 

Figures show that Antisemitism is deepest among the Arabs. This is a combination of ethnic hatred of Arabs towards Jews, and the hatred promoted by Islam towards Jews

 

The first step, the very first step, is for the Palestinians to break free from Antisemitism. Jews are never responsable for Antisemitism. Until then Jews simply must defend themselves by all means against Antisemitism…everlasting position of Trotskyist 4international

 

The Jewish people by still being around after such persecutions and setbacks in 4000 long years of history shows that they will always fight for a future. The problem today is that there are conflicting ideologies as to what Jews should do

 

CONFLICTING IDEOLOGIES

 

Some immediate conflicting ideologies

 

1. Paul Erlinger says that the US acting on this Antisemitism of the Arabs is not significant. I wonder where he has been living as Obama and Kerry preceded by Bush and Condi have stoked it up
2. The religious paralysers…they say we have existed with the help of God for 4000 years what can destroy us today…forgetting that the Jews were saved not by God but by the Red Army, for all the thanks that the Russian lads and girls got for defeating Hitler. The religious folk of Israel create a diversion which you must reject because the religious folk do not provide an answer in the real world (of today)
3. The Palestinian loving Jews in Israel which is a widish sward. They all have one thing in common…they do not like Jews and they just love Arabs and seek at every turn to be friends with Arabs. They are dangerous and Steven Plaut often rightly attacks them as such. They blame Israel. They omit history. They live in their own heads. These are in general various leftist Anti-Marxists, various Stalinists as in the Israeli Communist Party, Peace Now idiots, Labourists and renegades from Likud like Livni. Sharon was also a renegade. In general they have the same political philosophy as the German Jews who would or could not fight Hitler, and in the end were forced to try to collaborate with the Nazis. They died anyway. Sometimes no compromise is possible
4. Extreme anti-socialist leaders like Steven Plaut. Plaut falsifies the history of socialism and is a falsifier no more need be said. There are very many bloggers in this category
5. Patriotic Jews with good and factual analyses. They understand the truth. Yet they are caught in the trap of individualism. An individual cannot change history in the sense we are talking about here.
6. The Israeli military..the leadership is politically stupid, totally obtuse, having not understood anything in the past 10 years…Yugoslavia, Mubarak, Gadhafi, Ukraine and of course Assad. In general their obtuseness leads to paralysis. The IDF soldiers are patriotic and intelligent but they are led by political careerist mostly fools and tied to military discipline are a threat to the Jews in the longest run, but in the short term the Jewish people have no other defence
7. The Israeli people…They were mobilising strongly against the Sharon Gaza withdrawal…but without a party to lead the growing revolt of the masses of Israelis was sold out by the Rabbis of the Settler Movement. The individualist activists were powerless and the youth were betrayed.

 

All of this spells up to a crisis of leadership.

 

How to resolve that issue of leadership is a BIG issue. Let us discuss the mechanism.

CAROLINE GLICK IS THE CHEER LEADER FOR US IMPERIALISM AMONG THE JEWS

Yes, oh yes, indeed Ukraine could in a split second happen also to Israel. In Ukraine a bunch of Fascists financed through the US State Department have taken power of the state, and the President who was democratically elected in a democratic bourgeois election has been kicked out. THAT is Fascism is it not? Where bourgeois and parliamentary democracy is dispatched within mere days by means of Fascist bands of men and it seems women on the streets.

 

I open up Israpundit, I open up Pamela Geller, I open up the Jihadwatch of Spencer this morning and there is NOT ONE SYLABLE about the Fascist coup in Ukraine.

 

That can only mean one thing and that is that these flunkies who claim to defend Jews are in favour of this Fascism which is filling our news screens because essentially it strikes a blow against the still memory of the Russian Revolution of 1917. Belman who host Fascists on his site, Geller and Spencer…what chance do Jews have with people like this around!

 

THE RECENT CAROLINE GLICK ARTICLE IS ATROCIOUS

In this theme I have opened up the recent article by Caroline Glick this morning. If ever there was a loose cannon in the Jewish movement then it is Glick. Remember Glick got her political education inside US Imperialist politics. Among many things what struck me in this latest load of old cobblers from Glick is that she is calling for America to arm Japan against China, and she is calling on America to help South Korea to develop Nuclear Arms against North Korea. The essence is that she wants Israel to be the trusted ally of the US Imperialists.

 

She WILL support the Fascists in Ukraine…that is a fairly safe prediction. In other words right there in the centre of the Israeli bloggers is Glick a complete tool of US Imperialism. How could the Jews not go down with that there in place betraying Jewish interests because of her commitment to US Imperialism? She hates Obama because Obama is not Imperialist enough. Bush who removed Saddam and Glick campaigned for the Iraq War is her idol basically. We know that Obama is an Antisemite and a big danger to the Jews, but so was Bush in his Iraq war that Glick supported.

 

GLICK AND JOHN BOLTON

You can learn a lot about this crisis of Jewish leadership in Israel by paying attention to what John Bolton writes, mainly because Bolton is supported by all of these Jewish leaders I write here about,

…I have transcribed a handful of paragraphs from neocon John Bolton who is a big favourite of the above worthies, and it becomes clear what the issue is. The Jews are being led by the nose not just by the criminal traitor Netanyahu, but by a whole coterie of reactionaries. See what you think of what I think of Bolton. Young Jews have to break with this, who in 2014 needs this?

 

Feb 18, 2014 LA Times…John Bolton

 

EXTRACT FROM RECENT ARTICLE BY BOLTON

1…Obama’s first error: misreading your adversary. There was never any chance Iran could be negotiated out of a nuclear weapons capability it has pursued for nearly 30 years. Efforts during the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations demonstrated how Iran deftly uses negotiations to gain political legitimacy, buy time to continue work on its nuclear program and evade international punishment. Hassan Rouhani followed precisely this playbook as Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator 10 years ago. He is doing so again today as Iran’s president.

2…The second error: not knowing who your adversaries are. Obama argued for three years that Russia shared his objective of a peaceful transition from the Assad regime in Syria to something else. This was never true. Moscow’s support for Assad (as well as Iran’s, directly and through Hezbollah) guaranteed he would only depart feet first. The U.S. could either have aided Syria’s opposition or tackled the problem’s root cause: the mullahs’ regime in Tehran. Obama chose to do neither. His equivocation regarding Syria’s chemical weapons program has provoked giggles or dismay at White House weakness.

3…The third error: not knowing who your friends are. The Palestinians lack legitimate governing institutions capable of hard decisions, including making perilous concessions and compromises, and overcoming resistance by Hamas and other terrorists. Without such institutions, no long-term solution is possible. Negotiating with the Palestinian Authority has less substance than negotiating with a hologram. Perversely, however, Obama treats Israel as the problem.

4…Not apprehending these realities or foreseeing their consequences debilitates the United States, discourages its allies and emboldens its adversaries. The coming collapse of all three of Obama’s negotiations will convince foreign governments that his policies are dooming Washington’s Middle East influence to precipitous decline. And since appearance is reality in international politics, America’s ability to influence events — in Egypt for example, where the military government is already reverting to pre-Sadat days, purchasing arms from Russia — will sink further. Moreover, the opportunity costs of not focusing on threats elsewhere, such as China’s belligerent territorial claims in its coastal waters, are enormous.

 

To help us I have numbered these 4 paragraphs extracted from Bolton’s article

 

Bolton pretends to be a friend of Israel. Israeli leaders and Israeli so-called Pundits lap it up from Bolton. A kitten would have much more independence of mind than these Israeli leaders. An example is Belman editor of Israpundit who guests on his now notorious website Israpundit McCarthyite types, real communist haters, real communist bashers. One of their tricks that I object to…they have even named the Israeli traitors like Livni as being “Leftists”, the intent here of Belman types is obvious. It is to put in the minds of Jews the idea that all socialists are traitors. A kind of McCarthyite trick inside the Jewish movement.

But Bolton is no friend. Bolton wants to tie Israel behind US Imperialist policy. The main aim of Bolton and people like Bolton is to support any movement that will attack Russia or China. Why Russia or China? The answer is also obvious. The Bolton types have never forgotten the big shock to their system that was the Russian Revolution of 1917, where the power of the state machine was taken out of the hands of the Russian bourgeoisie and thereby the WORLD capitalist class, and placed in the hands of the workers of Russia, with the peasantry supporting. There is also basic contemporary capitalist international rivalry expressed in Bolton but that is entertwined with the Russian and Chinese Revolutions. It is also why Bolton was supportive of the Joe McCarthy in skirts of  today’s world, Diana West, also supported strongly by Gates of Vienna. These are dangerous waters leading to Fascism, although GOV is not Fascist and is sometimes in opposition to Jihad progressive.

 

Let me return to his Bolton’s article. It is directed towards these Jewish leaders, like Belman of Israpundit, who thinks because he is Jewish that that means that Belman should be listened to with respect. But No! That does not follow at all. Belman gives an open Fascist all the liberty that Fascist needs on his site. In other words Belman covers for a Fascist. Instead look carefully at paragraphs 1 and 2, and there you will discover what Bolton is really about. Bolton is saying that there is an automatic connection or even transition between Iran with its Nuclear Genocidal against the Jews plans, and Assad.

 

But that is false by Bolton. In reality they are two different things. Assad is threatened with his life by a combination of Jihad and US EU NATO force. As in the situation of Yugoslavia, Ben Ali, Mubarak, Gaghbo who is now in the Hague, and Gadhafi… He has a right to take support from wherever including from the very devil himself if he appears in order to fight for survival against the Jihad cum Empire. Not only has Assad a right to do so, but he is right to do so. Bolton throws Israel into this mix. But he does not answer that Israel had the right to hit the Iranian Nuclear Bomb and needed to hit the Iranian Bomb but did not do so. It was not only Obama but also Bush (who mentored Bolton) who held Israel back.

From paragraph 2 “The U.S. could either have aided Syria’s opposition or tackled the problem’s root cause: the mullahs’ regime in Tehran. Obama chose to do neither. His equivocation regarding Syria’s chemical weapons program has provoked giggles or dismay at White House weakness.”

You can see the sleight of hand in Bolton’s method. He says the root cause of Syria is the Iranian Mullahs. How so Bolton?

Why not say that the root cause is the way that the Jihad has combined with US and EU in removing secular rulers like Gadhafi and Mubarak, to replace them with open Fascism, and that these same forces are threatening Assad.

If you bother to trace back you will find that Bolton supported the removal of Gadhafi. In fact Belman of Israpundit actually called for US planes to attack and knock out the Libyan air force as a necessary step to bringing down Gadhafi. THAT is vintage Bolton and vintage Israpundit (Belman)

We await with interest what Bolton will say on Ukraine, so far he is silent, and Belman, too scared to say a word on Ukraine.

Some leaders!

So in a nutshell… Israel is in such danger not just from Obama but from the Jewish basic position in the world in relation to Imperialism through people like Belman. It needs to have a rethink. This will hardly be done by these capitalist types like Belman. If Belman was serious he might start by removing Fascists from his site.

 

Israel is being tied up in knots by these so called leaders. But they lead where? Only towards keeping this bankrupt capitalist system in control and power. Thus the capitalist threatens the Jews, and by the way every nationality on earth, every worker, every poor peasant, every wild animal, all of nature and all of the environment. At the end of the day the Jewish youth must break from this and indeed if only to preserve their rich Jewish history and experience must break from this. This can only be done through Trotskyist leadership and all of the above will fight bitterly against that thought and perspective so be prepared.